On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:39:06PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:37:32PM +0100, Martin Kraus wrote: >> Hi. I've migrated from the "stable" wmii(20080530 or similar) to development >> version and I've noticed increased wakeups-from-idle when measured with >> powertop. It used to be something like 13 wakeups, now its 40+. I've >> tested simple X(without any wm) with xterm and I get 2 wakeups in this >> way, >> so I guess it's not a problem with the rest of my system. >> >> Also the weird thing is, powertop doesn't show any processes with many >> wakeups. the largest event is hrtimer_start with 3.5 wakeups. If I sum up the >> rest of what powertop shows I get something around 6 wakeups so there must >> be either hundreds of little wakeups or there is something seriously wrong. >> >> Is anyone else experiencing similar problem? Could this really be related to >> wmii or is it something else? > > That's strange. I can't really think of anything wmii would do to trigger > wakeups, except perhaps in the rc code. Have you tried without any status > scripts running?
you were right. ran it with only /bin/true in wmiirc and got less then 10 wakeups with only rxvt and powertop running. i'm using standard wmiirc/wmii.ssh that comes with wmii devel. time to dig into those scripts to finaly learn how it works. thanks mk
